Exchanges

Monday Nov 11, 2019

Hey Everyone, hope you are all doing well. This week went pretty long so that was interesting. Now that I look at it this week went pretty fast but that is not the point of these emails. So this last week I Conducted my first District Council so that was pretty cool. I never done it before and I feel like a lot of missionaries were worried about what was about to go down. We ended right on time and I'm excited to be a part of this District. Hopefully next week I will have some District Photos put out. One of the things I invited the District to do is have a Baptismal Date by the end of the week. Well one of the companionships was able to pull it through but this week proved to be difficult.

One of the hard things about this week is Satan was trying really hard to have us fail throughout the week. We did have Exchanges and I went with Elder Nelson who is a great Missionary. It was a really good exchange and we found some success. One Miracle that happened during that exchange is that we were planning on meeting with the Sisters at two separate appointments. However they both fell through but we decided to go to the appointment that didn't go through earlier in the day. Thankfully this lady was there and we had a really good lesson with her. I'm hoping that the Sisters can extend a Baptismal date with her in the next week. We also had a couple appointments fall through during exchanges which was unfortunate. On another day we decided to try to get in touch with a Part Member Family at a Trailer Park but Elder Martin felt prompted to talk with the Manager. What happened next as we walked towards the office is that someone asked me if I wanted a Beer. I declined of course but as we talked with the Manager the other person named Bill we felt a terrible spirit in that room. She was pretty aggressive towards us as well was Bill. We asked if we could talk with the owner but she said No because she didn't want to lose her job. The strange part is that this Trailer Park had the Ten Commandments posted outside as well as Bible Class on Tuesday Nights. Also their claim that there was a No Soliciting Sign was a lie or at least we never saw one. Kind of sad to see people reject that hard but I'm hoping that one of the families we contacted there will come and see the blessings of the Gospel.

The rest of this week kind of went alright but again not a whole lot of success until Sunday. During their Exchange Elder Staker and Elder Martin put a goal of finding 7 new people that week. It was the last day and it looked like that goal was going to be impossible because we only had one new person. While we were driving down south into our area Elder Martin asked if we could tract a street that we both thought about a week or two ago. One of the only reasons why I wanted to tract it is because it was called South Park St. Yes that's right, the same name as the TV Show was a street in our area and also not listed on Area Book. We decided to tract in it and met a Hispanic Lady who sounded interested but we did not speak Spanish. We decided to grab Elder Nelson and asked to come with us. We went over and introduced ourselves and Elder Nelson gave a Powerful Restoration Lesson to these people. The Best part about it is that they had their extended family there and after scheduling another appointment we had now 7 new people in our area. This was a huge Miracle for our area and we are working now to find fellowshippers for this family. We also got in touch that evening with someone I have never been able to meet since I have been in this area. They sound promising and are going through some difficulties but I hope that we can meet with them often. I'm glad to see miracles in this area even if we do have doubts. I'm excited to be here this transfer and I will talk with you all again soon!